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...Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up all preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody...
...first the local citizenry were determined not to have a "maniac ward" in town, but the Menningers persuaded them to withdraw their opposition and even to underwrite a psychiatric hospital. From this nucleus has grown the present Menninger Clinic, by far the most famous psychiatric hospital in the U.S., which pioneered in research, and was one of the first to set up a juvenile division (the Southard School). It conducts an outpatient service and seminars for businessmen and industrialists as well. Also in Topeka is the Menninger School of Psychiatry, which has trained more mind doctors than any other...
...Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up all preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody...
Speak of the devil, and up pops John Updike. In an introduction to a new anthology called Soundings in Satanism (Sheed & Ward; $6.95), Updike-a childhood Lutheran who became a Congregationalist-even turns into something of a devil's advocate. Speaking disapprovingly of the widespread disbelief in God's opponent, the novelist observes: "We have become, in our Protestantism, more virtuous than the myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal...
Forced out of the preacher's household because of his romance with the churchman's ward, Ivan turns to running dope for a living. When he attempts to rebel against the strictures of the ganga trade--which lives under the protection of a corrupt government--the penalties grow heavy. Dope brings in high profits for certain middlemen; low wages are paid to the growers, and to the runners as well, who move the stuff between the countryside and the cities...